Microsoft has announced the next features coming to Dynamics 365 and Power Platform as part of its wave 1 release. The additions, which will be rolling out from April to September, touch everything from Sales to Customer Service, Marketing, HR, and IoT.
Customers will be able to test the features as early as February 3, but these previews are designed for a non-production environment. This should let admins and other notable users get familiar with the changes before they roll out a couple of months after.
The Power Platform will receive robotic process automation (RPA) via Power Automate (aka Microsoft Flow). Users will also be able to build AI-powered workflows, take advantage of better Teams integrations, and automate aspects of the UI.
Wave 1 Power Platform Features
Meanwhile, the additions to the Power Platform are much more expansive. Microsoft says users can eventually make use of the following:
- “Dynamics 365 Sales continues to focus on user experience and sellers productivity improvements.
- Dynamics 365 Sales Insights expands focus to include inside sales scenarios and enhances conversation intelligence capabilities. New features include deeper conversation analysis with emotion detection to enable sellers with the information they need, when they need it.
- Dynamics 365 Customer Service expands agent productivity tooling to help organizations evolve a proactive and predictive service model.
- Dynamics 365 Customer Service Insights optimizes the customer service experience through AI with new capabilities including richer integration with Power Virtual Agents and access to the insights data for in-depth analytics.
- Dynamics 365 Field Service improves effectiveness through a new resource scheduling dashboard, integration with Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management, and technician time entries.
- Dynamics 365 Marketing remains focused on enabling marketers by enhancing product usability, personalized marketing capabilities with dynamic content for contacts, and integration scenarios with third-party content management systems and Microsoft Forms Pro.
- Dynamics 365 Customer Insights enhances data profiling enrichment and segmentation capabilities, helping organizations better understand their customer data and derive actionable insights to drive business processes.
- Dynamics 365 Human Resources expands capabilities for human resources professionals, employees, and managers in leave and absence and benefits management programs.
- Dynamics 365 Commerce strengthens the personalized, omnichannel experience for consumers by adding e-commerce, providing smart product recommendations, and enhancing clienteling.
- Dynamics 365 Fraud Protection helps merchants increase revenue and reduce fraud losses and costs while improving the consumer’s online check-out experience by releasing two new services, account protection and loss prevention.
- Dynamics 365 Finance releases enhancements to country-specific tax, invoicing, payment formats, and regulatory reporting capabilities to help global organizations stay compliant with newly introduced local regulations.
- Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management helps organizations reduce operational costs by introducing customer self-service experiences, enhancements to asset management, and the new on-hand inventory service for inventory visibility across Dynamics 365 and other legacy systems.”
You can find a more detailed list of features and their rollout dates in the official documentation. Power Platform additions can be found here, and Dynamics 365 here.
